Forged By Faith

Matthew 25:35 NIV Give to receive And that unto the least of these. And why? Well, because contrary to common confusion the point of this life was never about what we had or what we hope to have. It was never about how we feel or what we then expect to happen or not so as to ensure that we end up feeling however we want. It wasn’t to look out for number one or to even consider ourselves second. No, the point of this life, especially one lived within this faith, it was for our to find ways to trade places with those who are in last place in this place in which all of life is a race that nearly everyone else is running backwards. All because nearly all of us are down here every day trying our best to make sure our lives are always the same. Indeed, we’re all trained to endure struggle, suffering, shame so long as it means that we’re somehow better for it. And don’t get me wrong, there is a certain manner that such is in truth a very good, a very helpful, a very healthy thing to do. And I...

Matthew 12:34 NIV Fix it And yes, that as is to be done through only the emptying thereof as the fact has become that of which we have filled is the same as that of which we are seen. And for what we are seen is the same as what we can likely see, and that simply because we are all quite amazingly the same even down to our being for now still found upon a ground from which we’ve all gleaned and thus gained all we’ve given way to letting in into that place from which every word spoken starts along its journey unto the hearing of those who hear then all about all we are. But I suppose that such is quite possibly the perfect question that must be asked before everything better becomes anything we can become: Who are we? And granted, that is quite the loaded question as it seems always asked within what’s always been the very judgmental tone in which it’s asked. After all, it all but demands at least some degree of judgement for anyone to even consider asking it. And yet this becomes the p...

Romans 7:17 NIV Am I me? And if so, who am I? And if who I am isn’t who I know I ought to be then why agree to for another day stay the me that I don’t want to be? And if I don’t want to be who I’ve become then I must agree that who I’ve been isn’t who I was made to be. Because for us to agree that we’re not who we could be, the better that we thus should be, is to also agree that there remains that better that we haven’t ever been before. And if there is a better me than what I’ve become then there must have been another One who had a better idea, a more worthy ideal than those idols I’ve both bought and become. For surely we wouldn’t be able to see, feel, hear or hold any recollection of anything we didn’t want to have to admit we’ve come to be if not there was He who at first, and from there, never quite so agreed to have let us come this far from who He created us to remain. This is regret. It’s this feeling as met within hindsight helping us to finally see the many things we’ve co...

Romans 6:2 NIV Or don’t you know? That as much as grace doesn’t increase out of some kind of senseless and selfish necessity so as to meet the necessity that so many seem to see sin as having become in what’s become a life in which we put ourselves always first and from there ask that all others bend to our will of wanting a life in which our freedom is not merely used as a cover for evil but in fact a license unto the doing thereof. For if grace were to increase as sin has, then His sacrifice would have seemed muted at the beginning. But what is there to be muted in regard to the mercy that met us at Calvary with our cross upon His back and our sins upon His head as twisted into that crown of thorns which we ourselves bestowed upon He who came to go where all should but none should so desire as to all but demand daily the same death He’s already willingly died so that we might both share in that loss of a lost way of life but too, from there, within the very same walking out of the de...

1 John 3:9 NIV For the seed sown is an admittance of sorts. Or maybe it’s an acceptance. An admittant’s acceptance. The acceptance of an admittance. The admitting that we’re accepted, or the accepting that we’re only admitted if we’re of the seed shown sown upon the scene seen of Calvary as the cost our Christ carried and charged as if both into the grave to from within there save all of we who’d made such our solace but too also as in a battle cry as cried from within that now collapsed cave from within which He chose to save those who’ve now the charge to live as if He did and they were. Yes, such is the reason and it’s rationality behind our understanding that we’re now of a new nationality unknown to this world we’re in. Because we now know we never belonged to this world we’re in. For something taken from something only belongs to the same something so long as the source of the something is something of some sort of authority or power by which to prove the providence of the proven...